Re: [PATCH v1] net: phy: fix auto-negotiation stall due to unavailable interrupt

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 25/04/2017 at 22:09:11 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25/04/2017 at 18:25:30 +0300, Alexander Kochetkov wrote:
> > Hello David!
> > 
> > > 25 ÐÐÑ. 2017 Ð., Ð 17:36, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ(Ð):
> > > 
> > > So... what are we doing here?
> > > 
> > > My understanding is that this should fix the same problem that commit
> > > 99f81afc139c6edd14d77a91ee91685a414a1c66 ("phy: micrel: Disable auto
> > > negotiation on startup") fixed and that this micrel commit should thus
> > > be reverted to improve MAC startup times which regressed.
> > > 
> > > Florian, any guidance?
> > 
> > Yes, this should be done.
> > 
> > I aksed Alexandre to check if 99f81afc139c6edd14d77a91ee91685a414a1c66 ("phy: micrel: Disable auto
> > negotiation on startupÂ) can be reverted, and he answered what it may do that
> > sometime this/next week.
> > 
> 
> Yes, it can be safely reverted after Alexander's patch. I had to test on
> v4.7 because we are not using interrupts on those boards since v4.8
> (another issue to be fixed).
> 
> As Florian pointed out, at the time I sent my patch, I didn't have time
> to investigate whether this was affecting other phys, see
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/26/766
> 
> I can send the revert or you can do it.
> 

I've now tested on linux-next after fixing phy interrupts in the macb
driver and this also fixes the issue I was trying to solve with:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/15/786

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
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